Are witnesses who don’t speak English less credible to jurors? (February, 2008, Issue 3)

Takakawa (1999) had members of a jury pool in Hawaii listen to direct examination of witnesses, including speakers of Standard English and Hawai’i Creole English. Jurors judged speakers of Standard English as most credible. Stephan and Stephan (1986) found that non-Hispanic jurors judged Spanish speaking and Thai speaking defendants…

February 19th, 2008|

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